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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Susan Sontag

How boring just to be a body.
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Body Boring One Liner
Sanity is a cozy lie.
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Comfortable Lie One Liner Sanity
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Live Old Oneself Recognition
Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.
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Disease Fear Sexuality
A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.
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Death Painting Photography Reality
To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing – a hand worker in an era of mass production.
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Artist Hands Writing
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing – not just a waiting.
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Myself Solitude Wait
I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Care Intelligence People
Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Book Funny Science
I urge you to be as impudent as you dare. BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD.
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Courage Inspirational Yourself
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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Inspirational Sad Sorrow Wings
Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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Art Photograph Time
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Hurt Love Moments Skin Walk
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Art Design Real
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Encouragement Inspirational Life
Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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Ability Exercise Literature

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